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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 35 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on March 3, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4679S, -98.7832WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:32:55 / 5:32 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004u81. Id of event: us10004u81. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.27 km (4 miles). Global time and date of event 02/03/16 / 2016-03-02 23:32:55 / March 2, 2016 @ 11:32 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -98.7832 West, latitude 36.4679 North, depth = 6.27 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 54 km (34 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 35 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.7832° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4679° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-02 23:32:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-03 00:12:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 129 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.034 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 235 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10004u81 Id of event.
Event Code 10004u81 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004u81, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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